Today USEPA issued its final rules that provide New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for volatile organic compounds (VOC) and...
Tags: Clean Air Act, Green, Completions, Environment
The USEPA announced that it is again delaying the issuance of its proposed rules regulating air emissions from hydraulically...
Tags: NSPS, Hydraulic Fracturing, Air, Clean,
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently vacated U.S. EPA's disapproval of Texas' statewide...
Tags: Environment
We've mentioned before the trouble U.S. EPA has had in blaming Range Resources for alleged natural gas contamination, based on...
Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Energy, Environment
U.S. EPA has proposed new standards for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new power plants. See here (press release) and here...
Tags: Energy, Environment, GHG
Today the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously (with two concurring decisions) decided Sackett v. EPA - a case that everyone in the...
Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Marcellus, Energy, Environment,
We've noted before the problems with a U.S. EPA study purporting to link groundwater contamination in Pavillion, WY to frac...
Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Energy, Environment
In Mid-Valley Pipeline Co. v. S.J. Louis Construction, Inc., the United States District Court for the Eastern District of...
Tags: Oil, Clean Water Act, Energy, Environment
The Supreme Court of Ohio has affirmed the Ohio Power Siting Board’s approval of Buckeye Wind LLC’s application to construct and...
Tags: Wind, Farm, Environment